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Friday Night Photos: Meeting Food Bloggers at BlogHer Boston

Before you look at these photos of people I met in Boston, remember that I keep reminding you how Friday Night Photos is about me taking pictures of things other than food so I can practice photography. Well, the big lesson in these shots from BlogHer Boston is about changing the white balance on the camera so you don't have to fix it when you're editing. I never think my photos of people look as good as the people look in real life, but hopefully you'll still enjoy seeing them. The lovelier-in-real-life ladies above are Nika from Nika's Culinaria, Lydia from The Perfect Pantry, and Sarah from Sarah's Cucina Bella, who were my fellow panelists from Social Media Can Save Dinner. (If you click that link you can read how the session was skillfully liveblogged by Andrea from Library Techtonics.)

Of course the ladies insisted I get in the picture with Nika and Sarah too, and I'm posting it just to show I'm a reasonably good sport because I hate the way the braces make my teeth look yellow in this photo. (My braces are gold, which has both good and bad aspects.) We were having fun though, which I hope you can tell from the smiles. (Thanks to Lydia who took this photo and also generously invited me to stay with her and see the real-live Perfect Pantry, which is how I ended up going to Boston in the first place!)

I met a lot of interesting women, most of whom I didn't manage to take pictures of, but I did sneak in this shot of Maris from In Good Taste, who'd written to me before we went to Boston to arrange to meet up with the food bloggers. She was another impressive live-blogger (scroll to the end for links to her live blogging posts from several session.)

My day started at 6:00 A.M (that's 4:00 A.M. Utah time) and I was definitely looking rather frazzled and faded by 6:00 P.M. when I got this picture taken with the gorgeous SassyMonkey, BlogHer's book editor, author of Sassymonkey Reads, and the person who's single-handedly responsible for the fact that I was reading this book on the plane coming to Boston! In the background between our two heads you can barely see my new friend Cora from Cora Cooks, who is not only nice, she's funny! Talking to Cora and enjoying some of the amazing food at the reception is Renee from Crumbs.

Last photo, but certainly not least, the three gorgeous women who started the organization that's responsible for putting together the BlogHer conferences and running BlogHer.com, which I'm so proud to be a part of. Equally as brilliant as they are beautiful are (left to right) Jory des Jardins, Elisa Camahort Page, and Lisa Stone.

(There are lots of other bloggers I met or who've written about BlogHer Boston, and no doubt there are people I've missed in the list of links below. If you were there and I missed you, please leave a comment and I'll add your link.)

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19 comments:

What an interesting event by the sounds of it. You write about people in such a lovely way. There is a lot of admiration, respect in your words. And this is in every single post when you mention others. How lovely Kalyn!

Kalyn, your Friday Night Photos are always great fun, even when they include a photo of me (I was being a good sport, too!). Looking forward to the photos I know you took from your visit to Boston and Rhode Island.

Looks like you had a great time.It is nice to put a face to some of the blogs.(Remember to be careful kissing men who also have braces - you don't want to get locked!) ;)Thanks for sharing your evening with us.

Valentine, all the bloggers I've met have been such lovely people that it's easy to write nice things about them!

Tanna, this was so much fun. I agree, it's nice to see the photos (even when we don't like how we look ourselves in the pictures!)

Lydia, LOTS more Boston photos to come for Friday Night Photos! Good memories to go with all those photos.

Natashya, will keep that in mind if I happen to get a chance to kiss any men who have braces!

Recipegirl, so much fun!

Ilva, the gold braces really do make my teeth look yellow in the photos, but in real life the gold is much less noticeable. And I always wear gold jewelry, so it matches. (And actually I got gold plated because of my allergy to metal, and it was the same price, but it's been kind of fun. My students are very impressed!)

Renee, thanks for clarifying. I thought it was you but wasn't completely sure. Hard to keep all the names and faces straight! Will edit so people know that's you with Cora.

At the end of a long day, I am thrilled that the only picture of me is a side head shot, from a distance, talking to Renee. Doesn't my hair look nice? I've sent my brothers a link so they can see in black and white that someone thinks I'm funny. You made my day!

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